Prep work for Billboard BREAKDOWN (either late tonight or likely early tomorrow) - ICYMI, there's a lot to this one!

Did anyone ever buy the rights from OMC?

"unbiased" always - ALWAYS - equals "Right-wing"

Let's call this policy what this is.

It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs.

It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct.

It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.

God what a rag. And on Substack no less.

We give up the for-profit insurance industry as it exists, that's what we give up you fucking dingus, you dipshit of dipshits, you utter tumor.

Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

I still need to pick up my car from the mechanic but don’t have enough for the deductible

Please send tips

Love you sorry

Publishing free journalism routinely again soon. Publishing gap was from being sick and life and research needs exceeding things for a piece that been progress 6 months

You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?

The Justice Department.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

I'd say it's pretty stupid to antagonize someone who will likely be in charge of Congressional investigations by this time next year, but who are we kidding? If Jeffries is Speaker of the House, he'll be easily cowed.

• Success is separate from satisfaction with the work. Sometimes they line up, but just as often they don't.

• Success has more to do with luck than any of us would like to admit, but persistence and being great to work with gives you the most spins at the roulette wheel to see how it goes.

Mechanic called. Insurance called.

Everything is paid for except the $1,000 deductible

I’m wiped out and just … fuck everything. Is just expensive and due and here and past due and chasing me

Can I have $1.00 from a thousand people to pick up my car tomorrow from the car wreck repairs

A photo of my Switch Lite showing my licensed unlicensed Strong Bad Mii, who knows Weird Al for some reason

Here it is:

A reminder that throwing trans people under the bus won't save you

This is not bitchy subskeeting, by the by. This is me looking at a fresh wave of “lockdown was so hard” posts and just…

There is very little cognition that some people never left, because everyone else stampeded to get out.

Have we tried turning the government off and... not turning it back on again?

I want to post a shot of Strong Bad from my island in TLLTD, because it's so meta.

I tried making him as accurate as possible, but my artistic ability is low, so I kept what I got and slapped on a blatant human nose 👃 so I could say he's a licensed unlicensed Strong Bad Mii.

NUMBA ONE BARGAIN!

Undertale - Atop the Fourth Wall YouTube video by Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall

NEW EPISODE! In this Patreon-sponsored episode... it's Undertale. Yep!

Also: STORLINE.

youtu.be/9LpgzzUg8b0

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

[D] It pulls the rug, then it smokes it

🧵

Nobody mitigates

There's a dearth of data to even trust (other than people constantly reporting being sick)

Shit would fuck me up far worse than I already am

Yeah, it was just so easy to give up a life I wanted to continue living because I had the nerve to want to continue living period. 🙃

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

emergency support needed asap

trans masc person in trouble in NYC

need to get them to safety

please boost

"6 ... it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. This does not mean, of course, that there is no impulse to conservatism or to reaction. Such impulses are certainly very strong, perhaps even stronger than most of us know. But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas." - Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society

American conservatives have long criticized Lionel Trilling for saying this, and yet every day they keep saying and doing things that confirm his point.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Two points:
1) Neither share prices nor GDP are a measure of the health of the economy
2) Basic Income now

Convos around sex worker safety + anti-trafficking are often centered on the West.

It’s important to recognize how different the experiences of sex workers in the non-Western regions exploited by global superpowers are.

Tech can be a powerful tool for liberation but it am an also be a powerful tool for oppression and we don’t end up in the good future by sitting back and assuming things will work out for the best if we throw enough tech at them

When artists are quitting the industry in droves because they can't afford to feed themselves, thus ensuring eradication by corporations embracing AI further, no I don't think stealing art in any guise is okay.

Not even then.
Nope.
Not then either.